Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-09-16

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a sanitary convention, under the au-
spices of the state board of health, is TO be
held in Owosso, Tuesday and Wednesday,
Nov. % and %.
While John Schweeberger of Lansing
was feeding a threshing machine a stick
few up and penetrated his right eye, de
stroying his light.
Roy Goldie, four-year old son of VIM.
Goldie of kast Saginaw, fell from the
shoulders OF playmate aud was so badly
injured that he died.
Henry W Perry, well known lumber
dealer of Big Rapids, was found dead in
bed in Lake City the other morning.
There is n rumor of foul play.
lGov Luce has appointed +. W. Allen of
Marquette, agent TO select land for the
Marquette, Houghton 4 Ontonagon rail
road, vice John Hornby, resigned.
William Hesse, well known merchant
tailor OF East Saginaw, committed suicide
on the 9th inst, with trough on rats
He had been on protracted spree.
The celebrated Mason case, which in
wolves some U 800 resting in the titles of
certain Saginaw lands, Will he tried in
Genesee county instead of Sawinaw.
Albert Fuller, living near Ovid, had four
horses killed 10y a train on the { and Ha-
ven q Milwaukee railroad lie proposes
10 make the company pay for the eqUines.
W. 5. Nreeland of Flat Rock has sold the
old Vreeand farm at that place TO Louis
Longfrey of Omaha Neb., for SIC, OoO cash.
Ny. Longfrey was once before resident
Of Flat Rock
\ good crop of tobacco has been raised
at the state house of CORE ton in lonia,
and il is to he cured under tue supervision
of Kentucky expert who has room at
that institution.
a piece OF rock was thrown 1000 feet by
a blast in shaft No. q Calumet and Heca
mine, and in coming down crashed through
a house landing at the feet of an Old lady
who saJ knitting
+. b. Wood on Lansing has map OF Al
bany, n. y, made in 81 the surveys
therefor having been made 10y Jay Gould,
who is now rich enough to live without
working at his trade as IA surveyor.
The Caro- fair association viii give o
in gold to the couple that will be publicly
married on the fair ground, - in gold for
the best, fat, red-headed baby, and :
more to the best baby not ed-headed.
The men in Mitchell Bros mill at Cadil-
lac have struck for 10 hours They were
working II. The firm had recently raised
wages 10 per cent but the men wanted
shorter hours at the same rate of pay.
y Milwaukee, company gets the contract
for building the Belle Isle bridge. Five
other companies failed to comply with an
important clause Of the specifications, and
the Detroit company's lid was the highest
one made.
Charles I. German of Detroit put in a
claim against David Prestons estate for
$4,000 damages for being kept out of pos
session of certain property IN the town OF
Lake, Cook county, H.. during Mr.. Pres
tons lifetime.
DIR. +. T. Rand OF Charlotte, one of the
most prominent physicians of Eaton
county, was severely injured about the |
spine 10y falling from chair the other |
evening. lie is quite aged, and fatal re
suits are feared.
Oscar *. Chew, Il brakeman on the Tole |
do, Ann Arbor q Northern road, wa
struck by the overhead bridge under the |
d., l.. a y. road, between Howell and |
Hamburg and instantly killed. His home |
is in Shelby, ONO.
An election for school trustees was held |
in Grand Rapids on the 9th inst. In one |
ward an attempt was made TO run a sa-
loonist against woman candidate. The |
friends of the woman rallied and elected |
her by a good majority.
The coroner's jury investigating the
cause of the disastrous boiler explosion
on the Curtis farm near Flint, was unable
TO fasten the blame upon any one. The
evidence did not show any person to have
been criminally negligent.
State Senators W. A. Atwood, John
Western. b. +. Cotharin Charles II. Bow
kerr Or. &. V. Chamberlain, K. T. Morton
and Geo. " Porter of Flint, are the trus
tees of the newly organized Michigan
mutual life insurance association Of Flint
William -. LOOMS, who is "a conductor
on the Saginaw branch of the Michigan
Central, was struck by "A switch while
leaning from the train TO discover hot
box. lie was thrown between the engine
and the cars and lost his right leg below
the knee.
Char.es Lyle "a Cannon township Kent
county farmer, was struck 10y Grand
RAPIDS q lnulhna train Wnle uTlNlHS
across the track near Belmont. One horse
was killed and the other badly hurt and
Lytle was so badly injured that he died
the next morning.
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Bailey and little
daughter Edna, Mrs. Bailey's parents, Mr..
and Mrs Daniel ia ughman, and Jerome
c. Fullerton, well known residents OF
Charlotte, were on the passenger train
that was wrecked near Alton, Iowa. They
were all more or less injured.
The Chicago x West Michigan fruit
trains are dom an immense business.
The other night the American express
company shipped .O,5,3 packages of
peaches filing 26 cars and the regular
passenger took 3 - packages besides
Fennville sent out - of the 70 carloads
The following officers were elected at
the meeting of the state business mems
association in Flint: President, Frank
Hamilton of Traverse City; icepresi
dents, Paul Z. Morgan of Monroe, and 5.
Lamfrom OF Owosso treasurer, J.. W.